The biter bit
- 26 Jan 07, 12:23 PM
When John Reid attacked the judge in the Craig Sweeney case for passing a sentence that was "unduly lenient" and lent his tacit support to newspaper campaigns attacking soft judges, I knew he'd come to regret it.
Sure enough the judges are biting back. Today a second judge adds to his discomfort. Crown court Judge Richard Bray today says politicians should "wake up" to the fact prisoners were reoffending "because judges can no longer pass deterrent sentences".
Some have sympathised with judges in the past for not being able to answer back. They just did.
